Download or read book Lit Wit Deck written by Richard Lederer and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you're an avid reader, prepare to be stumped and stimulated Overflowing with fascinating trivia questions covering topics ranging from Shakespeare to Salinger, Gertude Stein to Frankenstein, The Scarlet Letter to The Scarlet Pimpernel, this deck is a riveting game to play with friends, family, and book club members--or you can even quiz yourself to brush up on your book smarts. Featuring Q & As, mix-and-matches, fill-in-the-blanks, and more, this deck guarantees hours of erudite fun
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Download or read book Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology written by Mark Sawicki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to repurpose them to create a virtual studio for filmmaking. Gone are the long days and months of post before seeing your final product. Composites and CG characters can now be shot together as fast as a live-action show. Using off-the-shelf software and tools, authors Mark Sawicki and Juniko Moody document the set-up and production pipelines of the modern virtual/mocap studio. They reveal the procedures and secrets for making movies in virtual sets. The high-end technology that enabled the creation of films such as The Lord of the Rings, Avatar and The Jungle Book is now accessible for smaller, independent production companies. Do you want your actors to perform inside of an Unreal® Game Engine set and interact with the environment? Do you want to be able to put your live-action camera on a jib or dolly and move effortlessly through both a live-action and virtual space together? Do you want live performers interacting with giants, elves and other creatures manipulated by motion capture in real time? This book discusses all of these scenarios and more, showing readers how to create high-quality virtual content using alternative, cost-effective technology. Tutorials, case studies, and project breakdowns provide essential tips on how to avoid and overcome common pitfalls, making this book an indispensable guide for both beginners to create virtual backlot content and more advanced VFX users wanting to adopt best practices when planning and directing virtual productions with RealityTM software and performance capture equipment such as Qualysis.
Download or read book Mule Ship written by Dick Sproul and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick and shipmates were cast into an open lifeboat, sailing or drifting for 32 days, running out of food and with only enough water to stay alive. Striving to reach the west coast of Australia, they were hampered by wrong information, faulty flares and confusion. Under the hot Indian Ocean sun, he remained focused, often recalling his Los Angeles childhood before the war. After weeks afloat and putting 12 hundred miles behind them they could not be sure the rescue submarine was friend or foe.
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Download or read book Burning Justice written by Tee O'Fallon and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After narrowly surviving a childhood fire that killed two of his friends, ATF Special Agent Brett Tanner knows what it’s like to get too close to the flame. The trauma only spurs him and his K-9 partner to track down the arsonists targeting a Colorado town. This latest warehouse blaze looks suspicious as hell...and there’s a body. Now it’s murder. Fiercely independent insurance investigator Gemma Scott has been burned enough times to know she doesn’t need anyone—especially a handsome agent with an agenda. Teaming up with the hardened and determined ATF agent means not just trusting her instincts...it also means trusting him. Now they’re racing against an arsonist with a lethal agenda—one who’s willing to burn and kill to hide the evidence. But the killer is only part of a larger mystery. And the searing attraction between Gemma and Brett adds fuel to an already dangerously lethal fire. One that will smoke out a killer...along with Brett’s darkest secret. Each book in the K-9 Special Ops series is STANDALONE: * Tough Justice * Burning Justice
Download or read book THE PROFLIGATE written by D.A. NASH and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Anne Bonny was recorded by Captain Charles Johnson in a book published in 1724 entitled A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates. Anne was a colonial aristocrat and the embellished daughter of the revered Chancellor of South Carolina. She rebelled at the age of sixteen when she eloped with James Bonny and was taken to the island of Providence to live among the pirates in 1716. Anne was a woman way before her time who had the courage to search for true love and discover the ultimate meaning of freedom. As she sailed the open seas as a pirate, Anne faced challenges and quests that no other woman of her era had ever endured. Her exploits branded her as an Ill-tempered harlot as she sailed under the command of her captain John Rackam and was pursued by the inescapable armed forces of the English Royal Colony Jamaica. Despite the public shame of her deeds, her father’s unending love prevailed during her times of trials and tribulations. We follow their adventures with intrigue and hope for Anne and her fellow pirates, as well as for her true love’s safety. Only several plot points are known about the life of Anne Bonny and over the years the connection between each has been filled in with speculation labeling her as an uncouth woman, while ignoring other parts of her legend that reveal a more noble character. The Profligate was written in order to resurrect her vibrant spirit and tell her story where all the plot points are included to reveal a more realistic portrait as to who Anne Bonny may truly have been.
Download or read book Too Much Sea for Their Decks written by Michael Schumacher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten—all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior. Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy, such as that of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, the sailors’ bodies never recovered nor the wreckage ever found; an account of the whaleback Wilson, rammed by a large commercial freighter in broad daylight and in calm seas, sinking before many on board could escape; and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a package freighter that went down in a storm and whose sailors were found on the Isle Royale the following spring, having escaped the wreck only to die of exposure on the island. Then there is the ill-fated Steinbrenner, plagued by bad luck from the time of her construction, when she was nearly destroyed by fire, to her eventual (and tragic) sinking in 1953. These tales and more represent loss of life and property—and are haunting stories of brave and heroic crews. Arranged chronologically and presented in three sections covering Minnesota's North Shore, Isle Royale, and the three biggest storms in Minnesota’s Great Lakes history (the 1905 Mataafa storm, the 1913 hurricane on the lakes, and the 1940 Armistice Day storm), each shipwreck documented within these pages provides a piece to the history of shipping on Lake Superior.
Download or read book The Baltimore Canon written by Thomas Archer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, while America was in the throes of the first major fabricated oil shortage in history, Tom Archer, recent academy graduate, climbed aboard his first ship as the new third mate on the BALTIMORE CANON, an old rusting T-2 tanker engaged in the Alaskan Prudhoe Bay oil trade. The youngest officer by at least eight years, he found himself frequently filling in for the second mate, occasionally for the chief, and once for the captain. This is the story of those voyages, coming directly from the third mate's personal log, including a realistic accounting of an off-shore oil operation that most people have no access to information about.
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Download or read book Pirates written by Clare Jaget and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues in this second book of The Enchanted Tree series. Impatient to see if their wishes came true, Emily and Thomas soon realize that a fantastic new world of discovery lies within reach. Not only is the old oak tree still standing at the bottom of the garden but the glowing, magic key that they were awarded unlocks the door and guides them to different lands: where Henry their big brown dog is as talkative as ever! The children meet Blackbeard and his notorious gang of pirates, dodge a battle at sea, follow a map in search of buried treasure, and visit a desert island inhabited by strange and mystical creatures. Come along on this irresistible journey, make new friends and dare to eat some hotch-potch! Ooops, that Roger pops up again, wrong place, wrong time. Alas, alack and anon, he is bound to get it right one day! www.theenchantedtree.net
Download or read book The Mirrors of Tikal written by Kylie Leane and published by Kylie Margaret Leane. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tides have changed. Beneath the burning-sea, a voice is calling. Who will follow it? Separated from the Lawless Child and pursued by a monstrous Ki’rayh, Jarvis and his companions—the Messenger Hunter Titus and Kattamont prince Aaldryn, host to the volatile wind-god, Khamsin—are in a desperate race across the expanses of the burning-sea to reach the House of Flames before Coltarian erupts. For Human-machine hybrid Jarvis, his mission to deliver the vital Map-piece to the Key takes precedence over all else… except when his will is overridden by his protector-bot, programmed to respond to every distress signal. With the cries from the deep impossible to ignore, can his companions keep Jarvis from jeopardising his mission, his sanity, and his life? Jarvis has left his beloved Ki’b behind on the Lawless Child—safe with Denvy, Clive, and Penny… or so he believes. But, without the advantage of Khamsin’s winds, the misfit crew of the Lawless Child is forced to fight for their lives as every Pride in the area homes in on the ship of the Outlaw Queen Zafiashid. Can Denvy the legendary Gold Lion face his fears to save those he loves, or will he have to add their names to the scores of deaths he holds himself responsible for? Will the terrifying secrets of the burning-sea consume them all?
Download or read book Those in Peril written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST IN THE GRIPPING ACTION-PACKED HECTOR CROSS SERIES, FROM WILBUR SMITH. PERFECT FOR FANS OF BOURNE AND LEE CHILD'S JACK REACHER SERIES. Some debts can only be paid in blood . . . When Hazel Bannock, billionaire oil tycoon, discovers her daughter has been kidnapped by Al Qaeda pirates just off the coast of Somalia, she uses all the power at her disposal to rescue her daughter - but politics and diplomacy fail her at every turn. Her only hope is Hector Cross, an expert in surveillance, infiltration and combat. For all Hazel's connections and wealth, Cross is the one man who is offering to find her daughter. Hazel and Cross must work together to bring Cayla home, but neither of them realises that the kidnappers are not merely interested in ransom - what they have planned is far, far worse . . . The first Hector Cross thriller. Book 2 in the series, Vicious Circle, is out now in paperback and ebook. REVIEWS 'Those in Peril has much to recommend it . . . if you like your action plain, graphic and simple yet never entirely predictable, Smith will satisfy' - Sunday Express
Download or read book The River Queen written by Gilbert Morris and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved historical romance novelist Morris discovers inspiration aboard an 1850 riverboat where a prideful woman and a drunkard captain seek restoration and find it, by God's grace, in each other.
Download or read book She Wolf written by K L Jones and published by Kirsten Jones. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing you should know about me is that I am dead … Death. It comes to us all, even to you, one day. When death slips its hand around your tired hand, you will welcome the cold touch, I promise you. It is the leveller, the constant ... the one thing none of us can avoid. The rich, the poor, the gifted and the lame; we are all alike in death. Death is equal. Death is pure. Three tales wind through She-Wolf, each following the path of a different character. Ryder De Winter, the illegitimate son of Rafael De Winter, born with too much to prove. Tabitha Larch, a child forced into marriage with the cold and callous chieftain, Ares Wolfsnare, her innocence sacrificed to unify the two most powerful elven tribes on the Isle. And the She-Wolf, whose tale is as strange as she is … Three strands, seemingly unconnected, finally join together to become one, in this, the seventh book in the Isle of Dreams series.
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